Recent content by harleyjo

I also guess I forgot to add that I will be coming back and forth to take care of my other chickens at least once a day.

Thank-you for the responses. Does anyone else have an opinion on this?

Ok, so my grandkids are coming to visit in 3 weeks from tomorrow. They just saw me today and asked me to set some eggs so they can play with new chicks when they come for the weekend. So being the nice grandma that I am, I agreed. I have people that wants chicks if I don't want to keep them so...

Ok, this is great so now how can I tell? I know how to tell my black sex links but with this cross how could I tell pullets at hatch?

Is a RIR rooster x a Delaware hen sex linkable?

I have just a young pullet and rooster born in May. I have a small coop, with some hay in it. I do close them up at night. I was debating on putting them in my big coop with my other chickens and one rooster but am concerned with them getting picked on.

How do silkies do in cold weather? I live in Iowa and am trying to decide what to do with my silkies this winter.

Thanks for all the ideas. I will have to find one of those old feeders. I plan to use this mill because of the costs savings. I live two blocks from a local co-op but the williness of this other mill to bring bags of feed to my area for no delivery fee if I just go to a nearby farm where they...

Well we decided we are going to do the Cornish x again. I will tell you this though, they will never be inside my layer coop again!

I am going to start buying my layer feed from an elevator the grinds their own feed. It is a mash. I used it one other time and found I like it best best mixed with some water but they did tell me that people feed it dry too. How do you keep it from blowing away if you feed that dry?

I think it was the flavor. We are butchering the extra roos from when I hatch at about 4 to 5 months. Now we have had a hot miserable summer and I don't know if they just didn't put on the weight or what. We were so surprised at how small they were once we got all the feathers off them. Now the...

I really was hoping not to do the cornish cross again but I am so far not happy with the flavor of my dual purpose birds. I purposely chose to breed and raise Delawares but we are just not happy with the flavor. Don't get me wrong, I love Delawares and most likely will continue to raise them...

Yes, I do breed them to replenish my own layer stock. I can't mix the roosters. They fight and then of course the obvious mixed breeding.

I have the Delaware now. I do like them. I would like a little better quality than what I have. I have several different breeds and he wants me to scale down due to the rising cost of feed and having to maintain the different pens.